Greetings, True Believers! It's your old pal Spider-Man.
OK, so for todays shave I tried some samples that I ordered in. Based on all of your glowing recommendations, I decided to order a sample pack of Chiseled Face aftershaves and one GTB soap sample. Unfortunately, one of the samples arrived empty, and two of them were half full (none of the caps were screwed on tight). The whole box smelled like Cryogen.
So today I used GTB soap and aftershave....... Uhhhhh, I don't get it. It's not good. The soap performed ok, not great. There were chunks of soap in my lather. So it doesn't seem to load evenly. But the scent is just wrong. It sounded great from all the notes, but they just don't mix well. It smells light and almost citrus-like, not warm a rugged like I expected. The biggest disappointment I had was my discovery that the aftershave had menthol in it. I didn't pay attention to the ingredients. Menthol goes with certain scents, like aquatics and sporty scents. But, the menthol throws off the scent, and if I had liked it, it would have completely wrecked it. Really all I get from the scent is Cedar and Menthol.
I will continue to use up my GTB samples to see if the scent grows on me, but I doubt it will. I've tried a few other scetns form them in the past, and wasn't a fan of those either. This whole line might be a bust for me.
The Spider's Web
So I finally got my garden all planted and nearly finished. I started with a very large plot, and had no expectation of actually using the whole thing. But I did. Very little space is unused. It's all experimental, since this is my first garden ever. So I'll see what works and what doesn't, and change accordingly next year.
For vegetables (& limited fruits), I'm growing 4 kinds of tomatoes, 8 kinds of peppers, kohlrabi, cabbage, broccoli, radish, brussels sprouts, spinach, 2 kinds of lettuce, zucchini, 4 kinds of squash, cucumber, watermelon, peas, beans, asparagus, pumpkin, strawberries, peaches, some and flowers (sunflower, lupines, and something else).
The view from my deck:
Opposite view to my house:
I also have a "small" herb garden with 3 kinds of sage, 2 kinds of oregano, basil, thyme, spearmint, peppermint, lavender, and 2 kinds of rosemary.
The only thing left I have to really do to it, is get some stuff out there to help keep the deer and rabbits out. I ordered something called Deer Scram, that my Uncle recommended. We'll see if it works.
Can't wait to see what this looks like after the seeds start sprouting and the veggies start getting big.